05-08-2021, 02:42 PM
Vastra had occasionally thought she caught Svedka’s scent throughout the eclipse. Every time she followed the trail and every time she was disappointed. At the beginning it happened more frequently, before the movement of everyone else in Tephra began to cover the trails he used to leave. The most recent times it had been either one of his family members, which had been embarrassing, or their twins.
And while she did love their children, seeing them reminds her she’s saddled with the very uncomfortable feeling that there is actually someone in this world that she misses.
She follows this trail without much hope, though it is stronger than the others, and is surprised to see him at the end of it. She stands there in the treeline, dumfounded, waiting to wake up from this dream. Because it does feel like a dream - him wading in a pool that shimmers in the sunlight as she watches in the shadows. She’s had this dream before, though she’s never told anyone about it and will certainly die before admitting it.
He doesn’t speak in her dream, though, because she’s forgotten his voice. So when he does now it slams her into the presence and Vastra realizes this is real.
Right in that moment, she’s not thinking about how mad she is at him for impregnating her and then leaving her with two children to raise. She’s not thinking about how she’d very much like to tear him apart (and then kiss those wounds better). She’s thinking about how happy she is to see him alive and as she replies in a rough, quiet voice “I missed you too” her entire body begins to sparkle. She does not notice at first because her storm-grey eyes are on him but the shine becomes obnoxious enough that she looks down, sees her happiness on full display, and then it flickers as her ears flatten and she charges into the pool towards him with little grace and hisses “You fucking bastard.”
And while she did love their children, seeing them reminds her she’s saddled with the very uncomfortable feeling that there is actually someone in this world that she misses.
She follows this trail without much hope, though it is stronger than the others, and is surprised to see him at the end of it. She stands there in the treeline, dumfounded, waiting to wake up from this dream. Because it does feel like a dream - him wading in a pool that shimmers in the sunlight as she watches in the shadows. She’s had this dream before, though she’s never told anyone about it and will certainly die before admitting it.
He doesn’t speak in her dream, though, because she’s forgotten his voice. So when he does now it slams her into the presence and Vastra realizes this is real.
Right in that moment, she’s not thinking about how mad she is at him for impregnating her and then leaving her with two children to raise. She’s not thinking about how she’d very much like to tear him apart (and then kiss those wounds better). She’s thinking about how happy she is to see him alive and as she replies in a rough, quiet voice “I missed you too” her entire body begins to sparkle. She does not notice at first because her storm-grey eyes are on him but the shine becomes obnoxious enough that she looks down, sees her happiness on full display, and then it flickers as her ears flatten and she charges into the pool towards him with little grace and hisses “You fucking bastard.”
VASTRA
@[Svedka]